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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
The movie people probably didn't have access to a real u-boat. I saw a WW2 fighter movie a long time ago with P-47s playing themselves and P-51s playing Messerschmitts. And then there was The Hunters, about the Korean War, with F-84Fs playing MiG-15. And don't forget Top Gun, in which Northrop F-5s played modern "MiGs".
Movie folks go with what's handy.
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That reminds me: in the 60's war movie epic
The Battle of Britain, they used Rolls-Royce engined Bf109Gs and adjusted them to look like Bf109Es, and in one scene used them to stand in for Hawker Hurricanes! They also used Rolls-Royce engined He111's. All of them were donated by the Spanish. And they made the Stukas from modern civilian planes, I believe. And in
Tora! Tora! Tora!, they used American training planes from WWII as Aichi D3A1s. And the film
Midway used scenes from
both movies!
